Word: nobs
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...Tusk. It's located on Octavia Street and Mike has incredibly light hands. I always order the pasta. It's Californian cuisine with touches of Italian. I ask for the pasta with caramel sauce. Finish the night by going to Tosca Café, tel: (1-415) 986 9651, in Nob Hill. Or, if it's Tuesday, I go to Enrico's, tel: (1-415) 982 6223, a little jazz club with a great cabaret show. If you're feeling more adventurous, go to Asia SF, tel: (1-415) 255 2742. The nightclub's waiters are all transgender youth, and they...
...Nick, with the gimlet stare and the thin taut lips, is at first flummoxed by this amiable alien element: where the police station has a "swear box" (saying "nob" gets you a 10p fine), where the pub owner vaguely enumerates the wine selections as "red and... white," and where a man who's had his head cut off is described as "decaffeinated." Sanford might be the Shire, and the residents human Hobbits, to an alpha-male Aragorn like Nick...
...intersession with Master Yon Lee, who’s been the club’s teacher and senior advisor for 20 years. In China, they got to participate in a photo shoot for a local newspaper, celebrate the Chinese New Year with a group of 15 co-eds, hob-nob with mayors and other city officials, and humiliate themselves with a few rousing rounds of karaoke. Even better than belting out the words to Gloria Gaynor’s karaoke classic “I Will Survive” was the visit the group took to the Shaolin Temple...
Glaeser’s new post will likely force him to hob-nob with Boston politicians. “I would fear for my life if my baseball opinions were known publicly,” Glaeser said...
...find that this Administration, with a war to worry about and a honor-and-dignity-of-the-office mandate to maintain, did indeed act with particular rectitude in this case despite its Enron ties (or, again, perhaps because of them). Maybe we'll decide that Republicans, who hob-nob with rich business leaders all the time, are therefore better inured against their more inappropriate requests...